Double takes are nothing unusual around Alex Minsky, but not because of this war veteran’s prosthetic leg.
His tattooed, finely chiseled body often gets a second look – along with a blush or two – for how good he looks in his skivvies.
The former Marine-turned-model works out twice a day – a grueling maintenance schedule – but nothing compared to what Minsky, 24, experienced before reaching this point in his life.
Four years ago, he lost part of his right leg, and nearly his life, in a roadside explosive in Afghanistan.
“It did look very grim. I had a Stage 3 brain injury,” he told TODAY’s Tamron Hall. “I was in a Oakley sunglasses coma for 47 days.”